Events for March 29, 2007

8:30 a.m. Metropolitan Transportation Authority Executive Director and CEP Elliot Sander will discuss MTA’s capital program and expansion plans at a New York Building Congress Forum at The Grand Hyatt, 109 East 42nd Street.

11 a.m. Council Member Eric Gioia will discuss genocide in Darfur at the Queensborough Community College Library, 222-05 56th Avenue in Bayside.

11 a.m. New York City Board of Rabbis and the FDNY will issue fire safety warnings for the Passover holiday at Engine Company 34 and Ladder Company 21, 440 West 38th Street, between Ninth and Tenth avenues.

11 a.m. US Airways and America West pilots will picket for a contract at the LaGuardia Airport baggage claim level.

11:45 a.m. ACT UP AIDS activists and supporters will hold a press conference and 20th anniversary march protesting lack of health care at Broad Street and Broadway.

4:30 p.m. South Bronx high school students will protest metal detectors and “coercive” scanning procedures at the Tweed Courthouse, 52 Chambers Street.

5:30 p.m. Cardinal Edward Egan speaks on “Education in Religion as a Force to Bring People Together in the 21st Century” at The Great Hall of Shepard Hall, 160 Convent Avenue at West 140th Street.

6 p.m. African ambassadors from Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mali, and the Sudan will join students at conference on malnutrition in Africa at Baruch College, 135 East 22nd Street.

6:30 p.m. The New York Red Cross will honor Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, chair of the Board of the American Red Cross at the World Financial Center Winter Garden, 200 Vesey Street.

7 p.m. The Queens County Republican Party will honor local Republican politicians and professionals at their annual gala reception and dinner at the Reception House, 167-17 Northern Boulevard in Queens.

7 p.m. City Council member Tony Avella will hold a fundraiser for his 2008 mayoral run at the Broadway Comedy Club at 318 West 53rd Street at 8th Avenue.